If you were one of the many "lucky" people watching the veep debate last night, you may be suffering some cognitive dissonance when listening to the pundits' analysis of said event. There seems to be favoring of style over substance, and even that doesn't really hold enough water to float the punditry's descriptions. There's also the question of what the goals were for the two candidates and their respective presidential campaigns.

Full disclosure: I watched the debates on C-SPAN, and then suffered through 20 minutes of MSNBC saying how Mike Pence looked more "stolid" and Tim Kaine looked "over-caffeinated". Sure Kaine was a little "interrupty" at first, but when chided, he responded to the moderator "I thought this was a discussion". Once corrected, his interruptions went way down. Pence, on the other hand, used physical - rather than verbal - responses when Kaine was talking, constantly shaking his head, looking pained, amused, incredulous, and all if it looked very "affected" to me.
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17 comments (Latest Comment: 10/05/2016 18:20:34 by BobR)

... they get it right.
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29 comments (Latest Comment: 10/03/2016 20:35:37 by Mondobubba)

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17 comments (Latest Comment: 09/30/2016 21:36:20 by Will in Chicago)

It's that time of year again, when lawmakers have spent the summer doing nothing (seriously - they were off for seven straight weeks!! over the summer) and come back to find that - oops - we are once again about to run out of money. So - once again - they are grudgingly opening the purse strings to fund the government for the next two months. Yes, they've spent the month of September arguing about funding the government for 2 months - when they'll have to do it all over again in November. Why not allocate spending for an entire year? Maybe because the elections are just over a month away?
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16 comments (Latest Comment: 09/28/2016 18:24:25 by Raine)

Four years ago, it was Obama and Mitt. Thier first debate together was less than spectacular -- BUT it's a much different landscape now than it was 4 years ago.

Four years ago, Mitt was praising that trees were just the right height. He spoke of the 47%. He declared he had binders full of women.

He mocked Obama with a silly meme: 'You built this'

Tonite we have the former Secretary of State, Former Senator from New York (The Empire State, by the way-- yes I have a bias -- I got to vote for her) and Former First Lady of the United States of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton who will debate Donald John Trump. businessman.

He wants to make America great again. (It's not America: It is the United States of America)

I'm gonna pull out my patriot flag. We have have been great, we have always wanted to be better.

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Welcome to all our Turnips! friends!

and

Raine

PS:
God Damnit!
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290 comments (Latest Comment: 09/27/2016 03:54:16 by Will in Chicago)